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August 2014 Posts: Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, late AugustSunday 31 August 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of new stories in Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Tor.com, and Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
Periodicals: late AugustSaturday 30 August 2014 | Monitor
New issues of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and The New York Review of Science Fiction, plus what's new online at Daily SF, Strange Horizons, and Tor.com
New Books : August UK BooksFriday 29 August 2014 | Monitor
A posthumous novel by John James, and other titles by John Hornor Jacobs, Chloe Neill, Tom Pollock, and Arianne 'Tex' Thompson
Kameron Hurley: People Don't Buy Books They Don't Know About (Even Great Ones)Thursday 28 August 2014 | Perspectives
From Locus Magazine's August Issue.
I get into perennial discussions with other authors about whether or not blog posts, or bookmarks, or reviews, or carrier pigeons, or flash mobs sell books. The cold reality is that any of these tactics, when done as a one-off, probably doesn't sell more than a book or two... Paul Di Filippo reviews Peter WattsWednesday 27 August 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
In the sequel [to Blindsight], Echopraxia, Watts is not content merely to pick up his tale where he left off (with Siri alone in the ruins of the expedition). Rather, he returns us to Earth and makes a lateral move, from metaphysics to realpolitik. New Books : 26 AugustTuesday 26 August 2014 | Monitor
John Scalzi's Lock In, Peter Watts' Echopraxia, and titles by Agurirre, Anderson, Carson, Dashner, Duncan, Green, Hurley, Kadrey, Weeks, and Whates
This Week's BestsellersMonday 25 August 2014 | Monitor
Robin Hobb's Fool's Assassin debuts on three lists.
Ian McDonald: On XenoformingSunday 24 August 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview
There's the whole Northern Ireland thing, living in a marginal country, which doesn't seem that science fictional — I'm drawn to other marginal places. When I write about a place, I always go there. (I'm doing a book about the moon, which is problematic. You should see the flyer miles I get with that.) New Books : August SupplementalSaturday 23 August 2014 | Monitor
Mark Teppo's collection The Court of Lies, a tribute anthology to Laird Barron edited by Ross E. Lockhart & Justin Steele, and titles by Sarah Fine, Bishop O'Connell, Ken Scott Smith, Robin Spriggs, and Jonathan Thomas
Paul Di Filippo reviews John VarleyFriday 22 August 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
With his newest book, Dark Lightning, John Varley has admirably and resoundingly terminated his sequence that began with Red Thunder in 2003. Periodicals: mid-AugustThursday 21 August 2014 | Monitor
The final issue of Subterranean, and new issues of The New York Review of Science Fiction, Perihelion SF, and The Dark
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, mid-AugustWednesday 20 August 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories in the new issue of F&SF and in Neil Clarke's upcoming anthology Upgraded
New Books : 19 AugustTuesday 19 August 2014 | Monitor
Series openers by Alan Gratz and Ben Peek, and series installments by Kelley Armstrong, Drew Karpyshyn, and Lilith Saintcrow
This Week's BestsellersMonday 18 August 2014 | Monitor
Lev Grossman's The Magician's Land and Terry Goodkind's Severed Souls debut; Grossman is #1 at New York Times
Tim Pratt reviews Darin BradleySunday 17 August 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2014 issue
Bradley's sophomore effort is just as ambitious as his debut, and his voice is more assured, his characters better delineated. Chimpanzee isn't cheerful stuff, but there's a revolutionary zeal, and a belief in the power of the mind to effect change in the world, that provides some light in this otherwise bleak dystopia.
"A Black-and-White Movie, in More Ways Than One": A Review of The Giver
Saturday 16 August 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
While one can complain at length about the ways that the film fails to do justice to Lowry's novel, published for readers in 1993, a film adaptation also has to be considered on its own terms, as an original creation designed for viewers in 2014. And, as it turns out, the film actually has some interesting things to say about the young people who were undoubtedly envisioned as its major audience. Classic Reprints: AugustFriday 15 August 2014 | Monitor
A new NESFA volume of The Collected Short Works of Poul Anderson, and new editions of works by Samuel R. Delany, Hal Clement, Philip José Farmer, and Damon Knight
Paul Di Filippo reviews Ben BovaThursday 14 August 2014 | Reviews
Special to Locus Online
Storytelling has always been his first claim to fame, and the fourteen tales in this new volume uphold his reputation splendidly. Adrienne Martini reviews Rachel BachWednesday 13 August 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2014 issue
The narrative never quite goes where you expect it to, in a good way. There are surprises here; even though Bach is clearly working from space opera/military SF/romance impulses, she never gets mired in easy shorthand that betrays her characters. New Books : 12 AugustTuesday 12 August 2014 | Monitor
Daryl Gregory's We Are All Completely Fine, Patrick Swenson's first novel The Ultra Thin Man, a collection of stories by Kate Bernheimer, and other titles by Cole, Hager, Herbert & Anderson, Hobb, Krinard, Ringo, Wells, and Wooding
This Week's BestsellersMonday 11 August 2014 | Monitor
Ilona Andrews' Magic Breaks debuts on two lists.
Lois Tilton reviews Short Fiction, early AugustSunday 10 August 2014 | Reviews
Reviews of stories from the final issue of Subterranean and new issues of Clarkesworld, The Dark, and Apex Magazine, with recommendations of stories by Rachel Swirsky, Joseph Tomaras, and Octavia Cade
New in Paperback: AugustSaturday 9 August 2014 | Monitor
Yangsze Choo's Shirley Jackson and Mythopoeic finalist The Ghost Bride and titles by Barker, Barron, Goyer & Cassutt, Harrison, Hines, Johnson, Lambshead, Lynch, Modesitt, Novik, Sniegoski, and Spencer
Gary K. Wolfe reviews Daryl GregoryFriday 8 August 2014 | Reviews
From Locus Magazine's August 2014 issue
Gregory is interested more in empathy than revulsion, more in accommodation than heroics, and more in the victim than the monster. The result is his most tightly constructed and compulsively readable novel to date, and a small gem of what we might call post-horror horror. Periodicals: early AugustThursday 7 August 2014 | Monitor
New issues of Apex, Aurealis, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Clarkesworld, Dreams and Nightmares, GigaNotoSaurus, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Quantum Muse, and Star*Line
Ann Leckie: SilhouettesWednesday 6 August 2014 | Perspectives
Excerpts from Locus Magazine's August Issue interview
The way you can't deal with somebody without putting them into that gender pigeonhole is so strong! When you take a baby to the supermarket, everybody wants to lean over and coo at your baby, because babies are adorable. But sometimes, people lean over to coo at the baby and they stop, because they don't know how to coo if they don't know what gender the baby is. That blew my mind, when I had babies. New Books : 5 AugustTuesday 5 August 2014 | Monitor
Lucius Shepard's Beautiful Blood and other Subterranean titles by K.J. Parker and Charles Stross; Lev Grossman's The Magician's Land; John Varley's Dark Lightening; 1st US editions of titles by Neal Asher, Greg Egan, and Graham Joyce; first novels by Lou Anders, David Shafer, and Chris Weitz; and other titles by Abraham, Berg, Blackmore, Blake, Esslemont, Gannon, Goodkind, Kashina, Lackey & Mallory, Radford, Richardson, Strieber, and Thurman
This Week's BestsellersMonday 4 August 2014 | Monitor
Deborah Harkness' The Book of Life is among the top 10 on all five print lists compiled here.
Locus Bestsellers, AugustSunday 3 August 2014 | Magazine
Bestsellers from specialty bookstores are led by Jim Butcher's Skin Game, George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, Ann Leckie's Ancillary Justice, and titles by Ian Doescher and Erin M. Evans.
Locus Magazine's New & Notable Books, AugustSaturday 2 August 2014 | Magazine
August New and Notable books include Kieran Shea's Koko Takes a Holiday and titles by Buckell, Corey, Guran, Hearne, Horton, Martin & Dozois, Pratchett & Baxter, Pratt, van Eekhout, and Van Gelder.
August Issue Table of ContentsFriday 1 August 2014 | Magazine
The August issue features interviews with authors Ian McDonald and Ann Leckie, a new column by Kameron Hurley, an obituary with appreciations of Frank M. Robinson, results of this year's Locus Survey, and reviews of short fiction and books by Lucius Shepard, Jeff VanderMeer, James S.A. Corey, Chris Willrich, Nick Mamatas, and many others.
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